Last Modified: Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 6:39 p.m.

Antonius Dean Blount who escaped the Etowah County Detention Center Tuesday is being held on charges of first-degree robbery and second-degree unlawful possession of marijuana.

Antonius Dean Blount, 20, was charged Wednesday with first-degree robbery and a firearms violation (person forbidden to possess a pistol), according to a news release from Gadsden Police Capt. Bobby Jackson.

The 22-year-old victim told police he was robbed at gunpoint Nov. 9 outside the Grub Mart, 1101 W. Meighan Blvd., when a man he knows came up and asked to borrow money.

Jackson said when the victim told the man he “had a little money,” the man asked the victim to walk to the side of the building to talk in private. The victim said they were allegedly then joined by Blount, the third man, and the victim was robbed of $204.

Jackson said Sgt. Tom Bradley and Detective Thomas Worthy served the arrest warrants on Blount Wednesday at the detention center. Blount was arrested after Officer Josh Partee stopped a suspect’s car on Tuscaloosa Avenue soon after last week’s incident. Jackson said Blount was arrested on another first-degree robbery warrant in an unrelated incident and was in jail on an investigative hold.

Blount was in the detention center Tuesday when he escaped, running out the north gate of the sally port at 1:52 p.m., according to a news release earlier this week from the Etowah County Sheriff’s Office. He was apprehended 13 minutes later, after Detention Deputy Dale Hyatt found him hiding inside a garbage container behind a pharmacy at Forrest Avenue and North Tenth Street.

<p>A Gadsden man who was apprehended Tuesday after briefly escaping from the Etowah County Detention Center has been charged in last week's robbery outside the Grub Mart.</p><p>Antonius Dean Blount, 20, was charged Wednesday with first-degree robbery and a firearms violation (person forbidden to possess a pistol), according to a news release from Gadsden Police Capt. Bobby Jackson. </p><p>The 22-year-old victim told police he was robbed at gunpoint Nov. 9 outside the Grub Mart, 1101 W. Meighan Blvd., when a man he knows came up and asked to borrow money.</p><p>Jackson said when the victim told the man he “had a little money,” the man asked the victim to walk to the side of the building to talk in private. The victim said they were allegedly then joined by Blount, the third man, and the victim was robbed of $204.</p><p>Jackson said Sgt. Tom Bradley and Detective Thomas Worthy served the arrest warrants on Blount Wednesday at the detention center. Blount was arrested after Officer Josh Partee stopped a suspect's car on Tuscaloosa Avenue soon after last week's incident. Jackson said Blount was arrested on another first-degree robbery warrant in an unrelated incident and was in jail on an investigative hold.</p><p>Blount was in the detention center Tuesday when he escaped, running out the north gate of the sally port at 1:52 p.m., according to a news release earlier this week from the Etowah County Sheriff's Office. He was apprehended 13 minutes later, after Detention Deputy Dale Hyatt found him hiding inside a garbage container behind a pharmacy at Forrest Avenue and North Tenth Street.</p><p>Blount is jailed without bond.</p>